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Xenios Zeus
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Xenios in Ancient Greek was an epithet of Zeus, describing him as presiding over the laws of hospitality, and protecting strangers. The feminine Xenia Athena means the same for Athena. Crete is called the land of Xenios Zeus.
Off-hook
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! In telephony, the term off-hook has the following meanings:
NK Osijek
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! NK Osijek is a Croatian football club, from Osijek in eastern Croatia.
Xenisthmidae
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Collared Wrigglers are perciform fishes in the family Xenisthmidae. They are native to the Indian and Pacific oceans, where they are mostly reef-dwelling. The species is predatory and is known to be a minor threat to humans.
Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America (CAMERA) is an American non-profit pro-Israelmedia watchdog group. The group says it was founded in 1982 "to respond to the Washington Post`s coverage of Israel`s Lebanon incursion", and to respond to what it considers the media`s "general anti-Israel bias".
Off-key
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Off-key is a term often used to denote musical content that is not at the expected frequency or pitch period, either with respect to some absolute reference frequency, or in a ratiometric sense (i.e. through removal of exactly one degree of freedom, such as the frequency of a keynote), or pitch intervals not well-defined in the ratio of small whole numbers.
Committee for Justice and Peace in the Holy Land
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Committee for Justice and Peace in the Holy Land, was an organization founded in February, 1948 by Virginia Gildersleeve and Kermit Roosevelt, Jr. for the purpose of lobbying the Truman administration to oppose the creation of the state of Israel and lobbying the United Nations to "reconsider its disastrous decision" to divide the land west of the Jordan River into two states, one Jewish and one Arab.
Ben-ami Kadish
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Ben-ami Kadish (born ca. 1924) is a former U.S. Army mechanical engineer. He pleaded guilty in December 2008 to being an "unregistered agent for Israel", and admitted to disclosing classified U.S. documents to Israel in the 1980s. His unauthorized disclosure of classified U.S. secrets to Israel was concurrent with the espionage activity of Jonathan Pollard.
Velti
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Velti (NASDAQ: VELT) is a provider of mobile marketing and advertising technology for brands, advertising agencies, mobile operators, and media groups. In 2010, Velti used its platform to run more than 2,700 campaigns for more than 825 brands, advertising agencies and mobile operators worldwide.
Glomar Challenger
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The 120m long Glomar Challenger was a deep sea research and scientific drilling vessel for oceanography and marine geology studies. It was designed by Global Marine Inc. (now Transocean Inc.) specifically for a long term contract with the American National Science Foundation and University of California Scripps Institution of Oceanography and built by Levingston Shipbuilding Company in Orange, Texas. Launched on March 23, 1968, the vessel was owned and operated by the Global Marine Inc. corporation. The Glomar Challenger was given its name as a tribute to the accomplishments of the oceanographic survey vessel HMS Challenger. Glomar is a truncation of Global Marine.
Xenien
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Xenien is a Germanization of the Greek Xenia "host gifts", a title originally applied by the Roman poet Martial (1st century) to a collection of poems which were to accompany his presents.
Walpurgis Hall
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Walpurgis Hall (German: Walpurgishalle) is a hall on the Witches` Dance Floor near Thale in the Harz mountains, Germany, built in the Old Germanic style by Hermann Hendrich and Bernhard Sehring. The hall was opened in 1901 and is a museum today. Whilst Sehring designed the architecture of the building to Hendrich`s guidelines, Hendrich himself was responsible for the five large paintings in the interior of the hall. These portray scenes of the Walpurgis Night from Goethe`s Faust known as the: Will-o`-the-Wisp Dance, Mammon`s Cave, Witches` Dance, Bride of the Wind und Gretchen`s Appearance (Gretchen`s Tragedy).
Putout
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! In baseball statistics, a putout (denoted by PO or fly out when appropriate) is given to a defensive player who records an out by one of the following methods:
Yendayar
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Yendayar is a village in Kottayam district, Kerala, India that is totally surrounded by hills. According to local tradition, Mr. J.J. Murphy (known as JJ to his friends and Murphy Sayippu to the people) named the place, which was to be his home until death in 1957, after his mother and the local river. Yendayar is a combination of ‘yen’ (my) ‘thai’ (mother) and ‘ar’ (river). Murphy had come 103 years ago to the place which was a thick forest and had no name or people then. He had traveled a long way to reach there. There he established India’s first successful rubber plantation. He brought workers from near and far – Kerala, Tamil Nadu and Karnataka.
Xenias of Arcadia
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! For other persons with the same name, see Xenias
Polar Air Cargo
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! For the Russian aviation company see: Polar Airlines
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